Word: posters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cukor and Bisset spread before the audience lavishly lit shots of male musculature curving with sinuous grace, while Bisset's now famous breasts (remember the poster for The Deep?) remain unexposed, indeed, barely acknowledged by the costume designer. Bisset herself gives a bold yet detailed performance, wariness creeping into her observed glance, frustration, anger and love expressively clogging her voice. Unfortunately, Bisset's creation, the character of Liz Hamilton, novelist, stands out from the otherwise murky mess created by Gerald Ayres' screenplay. Unintentionally, despite the laughs, Rich and Famous becomes a tragedy of a fascinating woman with neither a friend...
...famous political image in modern art, Guernica, and evoked some remarkable images from Spaniards other than Picasso, such as Salvador Dali and Joan Miró. Guernica could not be lent to this exhibition, although one gets some hint of the fervors from Miró's design for a poster, Aidez l'Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands...
DIED. Joseph Hirsch, 71, Philadelphia-born artist whose boldly realistic paintings, etchings and lithographs often depicted scenes of social injustice or corruption; of cancer; in New York City. In 1949, asked to create a poster for Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Hirsch produced the poignant drawing of a stooped Willy Loman that became famous worldwide as a symbol of the play...
...judged this movie unfairly. Not that it's my fault; the blame goes to the admen, who know that the best way to get a large audience is to put large breasts on the poster. So Fine has more to show for itself than just the T&A it advertises. What it reveals is not so much skin as careful thought, a clear concept, and even some...
Taffy Zimbler sits beneath a large color poster of the Clash in her Strauss Hall common room, drawing deeply on a Marlboro. "Fresh-man Week was a terribly unnatural phenomenon," she says. 'It was really very contrived--there was no need for a special social week." She takes another drag. "Yeah, Freshman Week sucked shit...